-
Dumb Ways to Die (30 November 2012) Dumb Ways to Die is a short animated film published on the internet in 2012 by Australian railway company Metro Trains Melbourne to promote railroad safety. It uses cartoon characters and dark humor to convey its message of warning not to behave irresponsibly around trains ... -
Mau Mau Rebellion (30 November 2012) The Mau Mau Rebellion (also known as the Mau Mau Uprising, the Mau Mau Revolt, and the Kenya Emergency) was a military conflict that took place from 1952 until 1960 in Kenya, between the predominatly Kikuyu group of Kenyan nationalists and anti-colonialists known as the Mau ... -
Bradley Manning (30 November 2012) Bradley Edward Manning (born December 17 1987) is a United States Army Private who was arrested in May 2010 in Baghdad, Iraq, for what is widely considered one of the most serious security breaches in US history. He faces eight charges of sending classified documents to ... -
Mohamed Morsi (30 November 2012) Mohamed Morsi Isa El-Ayyat (born 20 August 1951) became the fifth president of Egypt on 30 June 2012, as well as the first civilian elected by direct universal suffrage to hold the office.
He was educated in the United States, and was a member of the People's Assembly of ... -
Mahmoud Abbas (30 November 2012) Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, was born on the 26th March 1935 in Safed in British Mandate Palestine (currently northern Israel).He has been Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) since November 2004 and has acted as President of the Palestinian ... -
Schwarzschild radius (30 November 2012) The distance from the center of an object such that, if all the mass of the object were compressed within that sphere, the escape speed from the surface would equal the speed of light. An example of an object smaller than its Schwarzschild radius is a black hole. Once a ... -
frozen waves (29 November 2012) Large blue ice structures in the Antarctic that appear like tall waves that have been instantly frozen as they break. These freezing blue waves were created when ice was compressed and the trapped air bubbles were squeezed out. During the summer the surface ice melts and ... -
Siberian tiger (29 November 2012) A tiger subspecies inhabiting mainly the Sikhote Alin mountain region with a small subpopulation in southwest Primorye province in the Russian Far East. In 2005, there were 331–393 adult-subadult Amur tigers in this region, with a breeding adult population of about 250 ... -
African forest elephant (28 November 2012) A forest-dwelling elephant of the Congo Basin. It is the smallest of the three extant species of elephant, but is also the third-largest living terrestrial animal. Formerly considered either a synonym or a subspecies of the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), a ... -
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) (27 November 2012) A U.S. stockpile of petroleum that was created as a counter measure after the 1973 energy crisis in which an Arab led oil embargo halted oil exports to the United States. As a result, fuel shortages caused significant disruptions in the U.S. economy.
The physical ...
Dumb Ways to Die (30 November 2012) Dumb Ways to Die is a short animated film published on the internet in 2012 by Australian railway company Metro Trains Melbourne to promote railroad safety. It uses cartoon characters and dark humor to convey its message of warning not to behave irresponsibly around trains ...
Mau Mau Rebellion (30 November 2012) The Mau Mau Rebellion (also known as the Mau Mau Uprising, the Mau Mau Revolt, and the Kenya Emergency) was a military conflict that took place from 1952 until 1960 in Kenya, between the predominatly Kikuyu group of Kenyan nationalists and anti-colonialists known as the Mau ...
Bradley Manning (30 November 2012) Bradley Edward Manning (born December 17 1987) is a United States Army Private who was arrested in May 2010 in Baghdad, Iraq, for what is widely considered one of the most serious security breaches in US history. He faces eight charges of sending classified documents to ...
Mohamed Morsi (30 November 2012) Mohamed Morsi Isa El-Ayyat (born 20 August 1951) became the fifth president of Egypt on 30 June 2012, as well as the first civilian elected by direct universal suffrage to hold the office. He was educated in the United States, and was a member of the People's Assembly of ...
Mahmoud Abbas (30 November 2012) Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, was born on the 26th March 1935 in Safed in British Mandate Palestine (currently northern Israel).He has been Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) since November 2004 and has acted as President of the Palestinian ...
Schwarzschild radius (30 November 2012) The distance from the center of an object such that, if all the mass of the object were compressed within that sphere, the escape speed from the surface would equal the speed of light. An example of an object smaller than its Schwarzschild radius is a black hole. Once a ...
frozen waves (29 November 2012) Large blue ice structures in the Antarctic that appear like tall waves that have been instantly frozen as they break. These freezing blue waves were created when ice was compressed and the trapped air bubbles were squeezed out. During the summer the surface ice melts and ...
Siberian tiger (29 November 2012) A tiger subspecies inhabiting mainly the Sikhote Alin mountain region with a small subpopulation in southwest Primorye province in the Russian Far East. In 2005, there were 331–393 adult-subadult Amur tigers in this region, with a breeding adult population of about 250 ...
African forest elephant (28 November 2012) A forest-dwelling elephant of the Congo Basin. It is the smallest of the three extant species of elephant, but is also the third-largest living terrestrial animal. Formerly considered either a synonym or a subspecies of the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), a ...
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) (27 November 2012) A U.S. stockpile of petroleum that was created as a counter measure after the 1973 energy crisis in which an Arab led oil embargo halted oil exports to the United States. As a result, fuel shortages caused significant disruptions in the U.S. economy. The physical ...
